I landed back in Frankfurt on Tuesday without incident, but also without a lot of sleep. The shuttle service was waiting for me, and swept me off directly to the bike shop in Heidelberg with minimal delay.
The motorcycle was waiting for me with fresh tires and oil, but there was a problem; another blown fork seal.
The fork seal is a pain in the butt. I shouldn't be riding with it like that, but I didn't want to interrupt my trip too much. It might explain why my brakes feel so odd, come to think of it.
Since Heidelberg is reasonably central, I opted to cut my losses and book there again, making an appointment to have the forks taken care of on the Thursday the 23rd. I should be back from Scandinavia by then, though it will really shorten my plans up there. But it poises me well to go east.
I returned briefly to Knopftours to repack, and got on the road to go north. Started feeling the impact of not getting much sleep, and called it quits in Fulda, a little east of Frankfurt.
I'm really not focusing much on towns and cities on this trip. I'm just riding, and I can focus more in future trips.
Wednesday saw me do a lot of backroads from Fulda to Hamburg. The country up here is fairly flat. There are bicycles everywhere out here.
About half way to Hamburg, I started running out of patience. Backroads are great, but they're also congested with lots of trucks. I returned to the autobaun and cut almost 2 hours off my expected transit time.
I went to the Hofbraühaus Hamburg for a knusprige schweinshaxn (crispy pork knuckle) and lots of dark beer. Afterwards, I went for a walk around the Binnenalster (a small body of water in downtown) before returning to the hotel for sleep.
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